Archive for October, 2011
[editor's note: all questions are answered by Otto A. Totland] Can you discuss the long gap between your two albums? Yup – We have answered this question many times before. This is what Erik Skodvin has to say about it: ERIK: The long gap has so many different factors it’s almost hard to get into. [...]
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Leave it to Peter van Cooten of Ambient Blog to discover and bring to our attention a few gems that fell through the cracks… Always with his finger on the pulse of latest trends in ambient, modern classical, and experimental genres, Peter covers some of our favorite and previously unknown selections on his site. In [...]
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I got a great opportunity to capture a moment of marching protesters during the “Occupy Wall Street” movement in New York City. Thought I’d share it with you… MORE SOUND POSTCARDS >>>
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Recent advances in technology elevated everyone to a status of a bedroom producer. Our social networking has released a torrent of music bombarding the airwaves with every possible strain. Among the endless mosaic of fragmented sound bytes I notice these gems. I hope you’ll agree… Daniel Mackenzie – Teeth Sleep Under Winking Black Eyelid (self) [...]
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Tags: ambient, piano, post-rock
New York City based Ezekiel Honig is the founder and curator of Anticipate Recordings, an electro-acoustic, ambient, and emotional warm electronica label, with releases from Klimek, Sawako, Morgan Packard, Mark Templeton and of course Honig himself. Recently Honig released Folding In On Iself, a minimal-ambient album on the beloved Type Records. But enough name dropping [...]
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“You awoke. You were there, among the luminous beings…” Welcome to the magical world of Akara. Landing on this strange small intergalactic system you are welcomed by its inhabitants, celebrating your arrival with songs in an unknown tongue. With Joshua Penman behind the production of psychedelic ambient soundscapes and trippy downtempo rhythms, and Femke Weidema [...]
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Tags: downtempo, psybient
Interview with Marsen Jules
Talk a bit about your production on this album. What techniques and instruments did you employ? I´m not sure if it´s that kind of music one should talk about the production, techniques and instruments. Even if it´s electronic music and for this reason pretty technical, it might not be the right approach towards this music [...]
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Mix : HC – Time Released Sound
Today I am proud to share with you one of the mixes on which I have been working on for some time now. A special compilation showcasing Time Released Sound – a label run by Colin Herrick featuring hand made limited edition releases by Shaula, Fabio Orsi, Alessio Ballerini, Paper Relics, Maps And Diagrams, Antonymes, [...]
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Tags: ambient, modern classical
OK. I feel terrible… There are a few amazing albums that I’ve been “sitting on”, and failing to share with you… All three of these are absolute gems and have been on my rotations for more than six months now. As soon as I heard the first tracks of each album, I knew that I [...]
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Tags: ambient, modern classical
Event : Decibel 2011 : Day Three
On the third day of Seattle’s Decibel Festival, the city has finally showed its true colors. The grey clouds of Autumn drew like curtains around the landscape, bidding September farewell. Summer has come and gone, but the music kept on going – lets hope it will keep me warm throughout the day. I spent most [...]
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Here’s a great set of reviews from Elizabeth Klisiewicz, covering the latest in experimental and jazzy beats – three albums that should get your head nodding and your feet shuffling. Fans of the The Cinematic Orchestra and Bonobo will agree! If you have a Spotify account, the little green icon will take you directly to [...]
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Event : Decibel 2011 : Day Two
My second day at Seattle’s Decibel festival began with a leisurely stroll down a sunny 5th Avenue, towards the Space Needle. I had to get some of the tourist attractions out of the way, and was actually heading for the Experience Music Project (EMP). At the museum, I spent some time checking out the famous [...]
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Event : Decibel 2011 : Day One
DJ Krush (Photography by Angela Dawn Paterson) Arriving at Seattle’s downtown hotel, the first thing I realized was that I was under-dressed. The 70-degree crisp weather felt cooler on my skin than the New York’s same-temperature-stale-smug-mist, and even a cup of dark roasted Starbucks’ coffee failed to warm up my three-hour jet-lagged bones. Checking in [...]
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